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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Wonderful Wednesday!

What with all the pre-Christmas performances, lurgies and school holidays, I have not had a scheduled day off, home alone, in ages. Today was so great!

OK, so I had to clean, tidy, change the bedding and dust all those places that have been home to cards and decorations for the last month, but I ploughed through all that, on a mission to get to my sewing machine - I love a good 'carrot'!

First up, the last 6 #scrappytripalong blocks. I got as far as finishing all the unpicking last night, then settled for rubbish on the telly.

So all 36 blocks are now complete...

This is not the final layout. I left them laid out on the lounge floor for most of the day, swapping blocks about now and then; it never really looked any different, I just tried to make sure no touching blocks had the same dominant fabric and called it a day. I have a couple of must dos to get done before I can get this finished.

The first must dos are quilts for Sizzix heading for a show in France in February, I believe. Using specified dies, I got free reign on what to make, and today, quilt one was basted, lightly quilted and has now reached this stage...

Hopefully I am going to have my first finish of the year to show you tomorrow as I am already halfway round. I did ponder just machine finishing the binding, but that's no fun!

Always happy to read about you having a wonderful Wednesday H. Is it my imagination or have I seen your Sissix quilt 'elsewhere'?? May just be a senior moment ;-) Love your trip quilt - debating whether to use my gagillion FQs of Fueld Study for it but what if I don't like it?

The tripalong is looking great, you've inspired me to have a look at my hoard of DS for Spotlight fabrics (oh wow, I have soooo much it's embarrasing). Can I ask, are they clover clips you have on your Sizzix quilt? I've been debating buying some but they are a bit expensive to buy without a recommendation!

how awesome to be making a quilt for sizzix! it looks wonderful! your scrappy is awesome as it is I think it is v hard to go wrong with the layout. So glad you enjoyed some time to yourself it is great to get back to some degree of normality isn't it? xx

It's funny to most people, but I love the process of binding my quilt. The way I look at it, you spend so many hours and so much love and sweat getting it to that point, why not enjoy sitting with it a few hours? It's good TV time, and you just can't beat the result! OH, and love the scrappy - I've got some strips cut but haven't put them to the machine just yet.

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I am a wife to a wonderful husband; a mummy of three, a 10 year old boy and twin 8 year old girls.
In the past 5 years I have rediscovered my passion for sewing and fabrics, gaining new skills and a love of quilting and more. Welcome to my world...